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VITIATION OF DOSHA & FORMATION OF DISEASE ACCORDING TO THE TYPE OF SITE

1. KAPHA
When it becomes lodged in the skin it produces stiffness and whitishness of the skin
it produces pandu (anemia) when it is lodged in blood; when lodged in mamsa it
produces tumours , cold abscess, heaviness and sensation of being bound with the wet
skin of a dead animal. When kapha is lodged in meda it produces obesity or medoroga
and prameha, when it enters bones it produces stiffness, whitishness of the eye is
caused when it enters the majja. When kapha enters sukra it causes accumulation of
sukra, or its obstruction and gurutwa in sukra. When it enters the siras like the
blood vessels, lymphatics etc. It produces stillness in the respective organs. It
causes pain in joints when it enters the tendons and ligaments(snayu) and distention
of the abdomen, lack of taste , indigestion etc, When it penetrates mahakoshta.

2. PITTA
When pitta affects the skin it causes blisters, small pox etc. When it enters the
blood it produces visarpa or erysipelas or burning; in mamsa it cause inflammation
or digestion of tissues and gangrene formation, in meda it products as burning
sensations accompanied by excessive thirst and perspiration. When it enters bones it
causes excessive burning sensation and yellow colouration in the eyes and nails.
When it eners majja dhatu, shukra becomes yellowish with a foul smell. When pitta
enters koshta it causes mada thirst and burning.

3. VATA
Vata being a farmless entity it cannot produce a variety of diseases in each of its
sthanas or sites, as kapha and pitta do. Vata produces vatavyadhis of that
particular site or organ. In the joints it produces Sandhi vata, in majja dhatu
kampa (trimors), stamba (stillness) etc. and in mamsa, sula or pain.
Knowledge of dushya vitiation is as imp as that o dosa vitiation. When the intimity
of the vitiation of dhatu and srothas increases and when the more evolved dhatus
like asthi, majja & sukra are affected the gravity of the disease also increases.

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